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Daniel Defoe: A Journal of the Plague Year
Charles Dickens: Great Expectations
Walter Besant: All Sorts and Conditions of Men
Amy Levy: Reuben Sachs
Margaret Harkness: Out of Work
Margaret Harkness: In Darkest London
Julia Frankau: A Babe in Bohemia
George Gissing: The Nether World
George Gissing: New Grub Street
H.W. Nevinson: Neighbours of Ours
Arthur Morrison: A Child of the Jago
M.P. Shiel: The Yellow Danger
Arthur Morrison: To London Town
1900-1950
Joseph Conrad: The Secret Agent
A. Neil Lyons: Arthur's
Thomas Burke: Limehouse Nights
Dorothy Richardson: The Tunnel
Arnold Bennett: Riceyman Steps
Virginia Woolf: Mrs Dalloway
Christopher Isherwood: All the Conspirators
Lao She: Mr Ma and Son
Patrick Hamilton: The Midnight Bell
Jean Rhys: After Leaving Mr Mackenzie
Pamela Hansford Johnson: This Bed Thy Centre
James Curtis: The Gilt Kid
Virginia Woolf: The Years
Samuel Beckett: Murphy
Sajjad Zaheer: A Night in London
John Sommerfield: Trouble in Porter Street
Patrick Hamilton: Hangover Square
Graham Greene: The Ministry of Fear
Louis-Ferdinand Celine: Guignol's Band I & II
Norman Collins: London Belongs to Me
Elizabeth Bowen: The Heat of the Day
George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four
Rose Macaulay: The World My Wilderness
1950-1970
Graham Greene: The End of the Affair
Alexander Baron: Rosie Hogarth
Samuel Selvon: The Lonely Londoners
Gerald Kersh: Fowlers End
Colin MacInnes: City of Spades
Kevin FitzGerald: Trouble in West Two
Colin MacInnes: Absolute Beginners
E.R. Braithwaite: To Sir, with Love
Lynne Reid Banks: The L-Shaped Room
Colin MacInnes: Mr Love and Justice
Colin Wilson: Ritual in the Dark
Colin Wilson: Adrift in Soho
Terry Taylor: Baron's Court, All Change
Laura Del-Rivo: The Furnished Room
Robert Poole: London E1
Len Deighton: The Ipcress File
Alexander Baron: The Lowlife
B.S. Johnson: Albert Angelo
Waguih Ghali: Beer in the Snooker Club
Anthony Cronin: The Life of Riley
1970 on
Kamala Markandaya: The Nowhere Man
Lionel Davidson: The Chelsea Murders
J.M. O'Neill: Duffy is Dead
Martin Amis: London Fields
Hanif Kureishi: The Buddha of Suburbia
Nigel Williams: The Wimbledon Poisoner
Peter Ackroyd: The Plato Papers
Monica Ali: Brick Lane
Naomi Alderman: Disobedience
Jonathan Kemp: London Triptych
Martin Amis: Lionel Asbo
Zadie Smith: NW
Paula Hawkins: The Girl on the Train
Kamila Shamsie: Home Fire
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London Fictions: 1970 on
The most recent London fictions - we are looking for contributors writing on, among other titles -
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Kamala Markandaya,
The Nowhere Man
, 1972 - posted
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Lionel Davidson,
The Chelsea Murders
, 1978 - posted
· Maureen Duffy,
Londoners: an elegy
, 1983
. J.M. O'Neill,
Duffy is Dead
, 1987 - posted
. Martin Amis,
London Fields
, 1989 - posted
· Hanif Kureishi,
The Buddha of Suburbia
, 1990 - posted
. Nigel Williams,
The Wimbledon Poisoner
, 1990 - posted
· Courttia Newland,
Society Within
, 1999
· Peter Ackroyd,
The Plato Papers
, 1999 - posted
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Zadie Smith,
White Teeth
, 2000
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being written
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Chris Petit,
The Hard Shoulder
, 2001 - being written
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Iain Banks,
Dead Air
, 2002
- being written
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Monica Ali,
Brick Lane
, 2003 - posted
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Naomi Alderman,
Disobedience
, 2006 - posted
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Diana Evans,
The Wonder
, 2009
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Jonathan Kemp,
London Triptych
, 2010 - posted
. John Lanchester,
Capital
, 2012
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Martin Amis,
Lionel Asbo,
2012 - posted
. Zadie Smith,
NW
, 2012 - posted
. Paula Hawkins,
The Girl on the Train
, 2015 - posted
. Kamila Shamsie,
Home Fire
, 2017 - posted
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